Micorowaved memes...

[cheeni]

This was me wondering to myself a few minutes ago: "Why are memes so popular?". In case you've been under the blogging world equivalent of a rock, you will know, the word, quite unknown to the unwashed masses until a few years back is now memetically popular.


meme
(noun)

1 : a pervasive thought or thought pattern that replicates itself via cultural means; a parasitic code, a virus of the mind especially contagious to children and the impressionable

2 : in blogspeak, an idea that is spread from blog to blog

3 : an internet information generator, especially of random or contentless information


I posit that memes (in the blogging sense, and with a little help in most other contexts) exist because they give people something to write about. Most bloggers find that their fingers don't move as fast on the keyboard as the technology will allow them to. Given the general paucity of thought in the Universe (I'm not talking just of the bloggers who can't hold two ideas in their head at the same time (note how I resist calling such beings the orphaned offspring of retarded sperms that got lucky)), or even the sheer amount of time it takes to form coherent thoughts on a keyboard, many will settle for the blog-post-in-a-wrap; (i.e.) the meme. It's the blog world's equivalent of alcohol induced air-head talk at a socialite gathering.

Given that someone will skewer me in the comments for saying this anyway, I would like to ride the fast food analogy a little longer. If fast food is bad for the nation, can meme filled blogs be any better?

P.S. You will note that I'm being in an especially wicked mood today, and forgive me. I hope the gentle readers of this blog will rise above petty finger pointing at memes that this blog may have featured in the past ;-)

Comments

[arucard2.livejournal.com]

-5
you really should post this on /. :)

It's the blog world's equivalent of alcohol induced air-head talk at a socialite gathering.
a necessary evil. :D I speak for the alcohol here. Doesn't it make social gatherings tolerable?

definition 3: is the best.

[teemus.livejournal.com]

Memes are for fun. That's about it. But most of the memes I have written are statistical. (Memes like this are shitty!)

When I wrote friendsCollage, I was awestruck at the rapid pace at which memes spread in the blogosphere. That's more fun!

Hi

[smalltownjourno.livejournal.com]

Hi, I just added you to my friend's list. Have a lot more interesting movies at my place....
Am a journo who writes movie reviews for the paper I work for. That should explain the fascination for good films.
By the way, the name is Prathibha

[skarra.livejournal.com]

Memes generate feedback. People like to have comments on their blogs; I suppose it makes them feel 'noticed' and good.